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Health Communication and Information Exchange in a Vascular Surgery Patient Trajectory

Authors:
Heidi Gilstad

Keywords: Health information exchange; health communication; digital health; patient trajectory; aorta aneurism

Abstract:
Health communication and information exchange is important in public health. Despite the fact that adequate health information is a patient right according to Norwegian law, complaints from patients to the authorities on lack of information and communication are frequent. The purpose of the paper is to discuss health communication and health information exchange for patients undergoing vascular surgery for abdominal aorta aneurism (AAA), with particular focus on the communicative practices in a typical patient trajectory for this cohort. Both verbal communication and written information exchanged through health information systems during the patient trajectory are included in the data. The project is theoretically and analytically inspired by linguistic and discourse analytical perspectives on information and communication about health.

Pages: 1 to 6

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: July 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4553

ISBN: 978-1-61208-424-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 19, 2015 to July 24, 2015